Some persons are so devotional they have not one bit of true religion in them.
BENJAMIN HAYDONFortunately for serious minds, a bias recognized is a bias sterilized.
More Benjamin Haydon Quotes
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The only legitimate artists in England are the architects.
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To procrastinate seems inherent in man, for if you do to-day that you may enjoy to-morrow it is but deferring the enjoyment; so that to be idle or industrious, vicious or virtuous, is but with a view of procrastinating the one or the other.
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Invention is totally independent of the will.
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Mistrusts sometimes come over one’s mind of the justice of God. But let a real misery come again, and to whom do we fly? To whom do we instinctively and immediately look up?
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Do your duty, and don’t swerve from it. Do that which your conscience tells you to be right, and leave the consequences to God.
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We are a compound of both here and hereafter; we shall be made responsible for the actions of both while here. Anything beyond this is beyond our power to prove, and would be of no real value if we could.
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When a man is no longer anxious to do better than well, he is done for.
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Satan is to be punished eternally in the end, but for a while he triumphs.
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Never suffer youth to be an excuse for inadequacy, nor age and fame to be an excuse for indolence.
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The greatest geniuses have always attributed everything to God, as if conscious of being possessed of a spark of His divinity.
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One of the surest evidences of an elevated taste is the power of enjoying works of impassioned terrorism, in poetry, and painting. The man who can look at impassioned subjects of terror with a feeling of exultation may be certain he has an elevated taste.
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No man, perhaps, is so wicked as to commit evil for its own sake. Evil is generally committed under the hope of some advantage the pursuit of virtue seldom obtains. Yet the most successful result of the most virtuous heroism is never without its alloy.
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There must be more malice than love in the hearts of all wits.
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Temperance in everything is requisite for happiness.
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If men would only take the chances of doing right because it is right, instead of the immediate certainty of the advantage of doing wrong, how much happier would their lives be.
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